Sentence examples for its contrary from inspiring English sources

Some have focused on renewal; Walter Jackson Bate points to the theme of each stanza including "its contrary" idea, here death implying, though only indirectly, the renewal of life.

Making a proposal implies that the action associated to it is strictly preferred as its contrary.

Everything solid evaporates, everything seems pregnant with its contrary.

Polls can indeed say anything and its contrary.

An oppositional label can't flourish for long when its contrary is ailing.

One legacy of the Soviet obsession with modernity has been to create its contrary, a sentimental regard for tradition.

"We never see the true State of our Condition," he says, "till it is illustrated to us by its Contraries; nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it".

It has previously acknowledged that certain investors were allowed to trade in and out of its funds, contrary to its stated policies.

Note that the Cauchy is a heavy-tailed distribution, that is, it places considerable probability mass on its tail (contrary to the skew normal, which is light tailed).

With all the passion in its heart it believes contrary things: it is equally overawed by science and by magic.

Its claims, contrary to Rothstein's belief, have been shredded.